Covid-19: the delta variant "3 times more contagious" than the British variant

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In Mexico City, schools reopened, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, on August 30, 2021, here at Motolinia primary school.

PEDRO PARDO AFP

By: Caroline Paré Follow

2 min

As the children head back to school, we take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic.

What do we know today about the contagiousness of the Delta variant of Covid-19?

Why vaccination remains essential, even if it does not protect 100% of the risk of contracting the coronavirus currently?

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  • Prof. Christophe Rapp,

     infectious disease

    specialist

    at

    the American Hospital of Paris (Neuilly)

    , President of the

    French Society of Travel Medicine

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